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Monday, 18 December 2017

Princesses of stone

Here is my answer to the question "Is there a fairy tale about a princess turning into a statue?":

The
term is “petrification” or petrified. Death by being turned to stone.
Medusa was a gorgon monster in Greek myth, turned people into stone if
they looked at her eyes. The ones she turned to stone were mainly heroes
and warriors, attempting to kill her. They failed, except for Perseus.
He managed to cut off her head and use it to turn the Kraken into stone.
However, the Medusa’s eyes were still powerful after death so Perseus
never looked at the eyes and kept it within a sack. There
are numerous stories of princesses and maidens turning to stone. There
is Cornish fairytales of stone circle megaliths that were once dancing
princesses. The Merry Maidens circle is “stone dance” in St. Buryan in
Cornwall. The story goes that 19 maidens were petrified into stone by a
god who was punishing them for dancing on Sunday. Another
is the Tregeseal East Stone Circle, or otherwise called “The Dancing
Stones”. More women petrified to stone for dancing and offending a god.
More stone circles that are petrified princesses are the Boskednan
Stones or “Nine Maidens” as they’re also called. (The
Hurlers are stone circles in St. Cleer village in Cornwall. These were
once men who were punished by a god and petrified into stones because
they were hurling balls on a sunday. Other male stones are the Pipers of
Bodmin Moor). In
real life plenty of maidens and princesses (along with other people and
animals) were all turned into petrified forms in Pompeii, 79 CE, when
Mount Vesuvius erupted. Image shows the famous two maidens petrified
into statues after the hot ash fell from Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii.